Machine generated contents note: 2. impact of macro-adjustment policies on the incomes of the poor -- a review of alternative approaches -- 3. Meso-policy choices and the poor -- 4. Food subsidies: two errors of targeting / Frances Stewart / Giovanni Andrea Cornia -- 5. Adjustment and social funds: political panacea or effective poverty reduction? / Frances Stewart / Willem van der Geest -- 6. Structural adjustment policies and the poor in Africa: an analysis of the 1980s / Frances Stewart / Anuradha Basu -- 7. Latin American and Caribbean story
Summary
Annotation Do the structural adjustment policies of the World Bank/ IMF make the World's poorest people even poorer? Frances Stewart was one of the first people to start this debate with her book Adjustment with a Human Face. Returning to the subject half a decade latter she critically analyses the extent to which things have changed for the better
Analysis
Developing countries Poverty
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index